Karl leister was born on June 15, 1939 in Wilhelmshaven Germany. Just like him his father was also a clarinet player. His father was the one who taught him how to play the clarinet at a very young age. Karl Leister studied in the school of Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin. When he was a teenager he was accepted as a clarinet soloist. He joined the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1959. He stayed playing in this Orchestra for thirty years. Karl Leister in this time was recognize as a big major soloist and chamber musician.
Being in the Berlin soloist help him because he made a big number of very important and masterful recordings. He recorded more than 100 recordings. Karl Leister also co-founded the Ensemble Wien-Berlin. Karl Leister has been allowed to teach music to a new generation of musicians, in the academy of Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Karl Leister is identified very strong with count less composers. For example Mozart, Weber, and Spohr. When he was a chamber player he played with leading pianist, string players, and international players.
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On November 6th, 1854, John Philip Sousa was born in Washington D.C. His Father, John Antonio Sousa was Portuguese, while His Mother Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus Was Bavarian. The first instrument John ever played was the violin. He also sang, and played instruments such as the piano, flute, trombone, and baritone. When John was 13, his father enlisted him in the Marine Corps Band so he wouldn’t join the circus, however he did play drums for Pt Barnum, the Circus King. John remained with the Marines until he was twenty years old.
In The Nazi Seizure of Power by William Sheridan Allen, the author is able to show the reader the support building strategy used by the Nazi party in Northeim and surrounding areas. Allen's thesis is that Nazi party was able to succeed the village of Northeim and else where because they were able to reach out the lower and middle class. Since these classes held the majority of the population, the Nazi party discovered what they wanted from government officials and then used that to persuade these classes to vote for them. To give you a background of the village of Northeim is vital to the understanding of how this party could have come in and take over the political scene so quickly.
John Philip Sousa was born in 1854, the third child of ten. He was born in Washington, D.C. His parents were immigrants. John
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, also known as W.A. Mozart, was a very well-known composer of the Classical Period as well as still to this day. Wolfgang Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He was known for his sonatas, symphonies, masses, chamber music, concertos, and operas. He set the standards high for all composers following in his footsteps.
During the Holocaust, around six million Jews were murdered due to Hitler’s plan to rid Germany of “heterogeneous people” in Germany, as stated in the novel, Life and Death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche. Shortly following a period of suffering, Hitler began leading Germany in 1930 to start the period of his rule, the Third Reich. Over time, his power and support from the country increased until he had full control over his people. Starting from saying “Heil Hitler!” the people of the German empire were cleverly forced into following Hitler through terror and threat. He had a group of leaders, the SS, who were Nazis that willingly took any task given, including the mass murder of millions of Jews due to his belief that they were enemies to Germany. German citizens were talked into participating or believing in the most extreme of things, like violent pogroms, deportations, attacks, and executions. Through the novel’s perspicacity of the Third Reich, readers can see how Hitler’s reign was a controversial time period summed up by courage, extremity, and most important of all, loyalty.
Between 1939 and 1945, five to six million Jewish people died, and about seventy thousand men, women, children, handicapped, and the mentally disabled died in the conflict known as the Holocaust. The victims and survivors of the Holocaust had a positive standpoint on the horrible conflict. Members of the Holocaust with famous accounts were Anne Frank, Leib Lejzon ( Leon Leyson). Anne Frank and Leib Lejzon had both an very hard childhood, but both children responded to conflict with a good viewpoint. They responded like many people have a hard time doing, they make the best out of a bad time. Leib and Anne were both very young and around the same age when they were put in the concentration camps. In an time of war or any conflict you should respond to an situation with a positive outlook because with a negative outlook, there’s going to be an negative
Oskar Schindler faced many conflicts in his life. The main conflict he faced was overcoming the Nazis and saving over one thousand Jewish People. Schindler, with out a job at the time, joined the Nazi Party and followed on the heels of the SS when the Germans invaded Poland. This is when Schindler took over two previously Jewish owned companies that dealt with the manufacture and sales of enamel kitchenware products and opened up his own enamel shop right outside of Krakow near the Jewish ghetto. There, he employed mostly Jewish workers, which saved them from being deported to labor camps. Though twice the Gestapo arrested him, he got released because of his many connections and with many bribes. Most importantly, he helped save an entire race of human beings.
Sousa was born on November 6, 1854 at a small place on 636 G Street, in southeast Washington D.C., near the Marine Barracks that would later have some influence on his music. (Sousa) His father played trombone in the Marine Band. Sousa was the third of ten children from John Antonio Sousa and Maria Elisabeth Trinkhous. Young Sousa grew up around military band music, and when he was just 6, he began learning a variety of instruments, such as; violin and piano. He also played flute, cornet, baritone, trombone, and alto horn. (Sousa)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-91), Austrian composer, a centrally important composer of the classical era, and one of the most inspired composers in Western musical tradition.
Biography of Franz Schubert * No Works Cited Many prominent musicians produced major works during the romantic period. Among these are Beethoven, Strauss, and Bach. But the musician that I think had the most impact, was Franz Schubert. Franz Peter, born on 31 January 1797 was one of fourteen children born of Franz Theodore Schubert and Elisabeth Vietz, four of which survived. He grew up in an apartment that was converted to a classroom in which his father taught several elementary school classes.
Annie Leibovitz was born on the 2nd of October 1949. She was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. She is an American portrait photographer and photographs mostly actors and actresses. She was the first woman to hold an exhibition at Washington’s National Portrait Gallery in 1991. She married her girlfriend ‘Susan Sontag’ in 1989 and her wife died in 2004. Leibovitz has three daughters. Her first daughter named ‘Sarah Cameron Leibovitz’ was born in October 2001. And her twin girls, Susan and Samuelle, were born to a surrogate mother in May 2005.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756. He had a mother and father who were musicians, Maria and Leopold Pertl Mozart, as well as an older sister, Maria Anna. Leopold wanted his children to be influenced by music and began teaching his daughter piano at age seven. While they practiced, three-year-old Wolfgang watched and was able gradually to recognize and play music.
Besides composing, he also worked as a conductor in Düsseldorf (1833-35) and Leipzig (1835-40). And in 1843, he established a new conservatory in Leipzig. Up to this point, Mendelssohn was already a well-known pianist, composer and conductor.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7th, 1840, in Vyatka, Russia. His dad worked as a mine inspector. At the age of five years old, he started to take piano lessons. At an early age, he began showing a great talent in music, but his parents thought he should work in civil service. When he was ten, he started going to school at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in St. Petersburg. His mother died of cholera in 1854 when Tchaikovsky was 14 years old. In his early twenties, Tchaikovsky began to take music lessons at the Russian Musical Society. After this, he joined the St. Petersburg Conservatory. While he attended the conservatory, he gave private lessons to his fellow music students. Around 1863, he traveled to Moscow to become a professor
Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s List is the historical account of Oskar Schindler and his heroic actions in the midst of the horrors of World War II Poland. Schindler’s List recounts the life of Oskar Schindler, and how he comes to Poland in search of material wealth but leaves having saved the lives of over 1100 Jews who would most certainly have perished. The novel focuses on how Schindler comes to the realization that concentration and forced labor camps are wrong, and that many people were dying through no fault of their own. This realization did not occur overnight, but gradually came to be as the business man in Oskar Schindler turned into the savior of the Jews that had brought him so much wealth. Schindler’s List is not just a biography of Oskar Schindler, but it is the story of how good can overcome evil and how charity can overcome greed.